last weekend i bought the last 'Pirates of the Caribbean' flick....mostly because of the genre and the eye-candy (orlando...oh dear!!).

AND:

28 Days Later.that was loaned to me a while back and i loved it. so when i saw it in the "CHEAP, BUY ME!!" bin, i could not resist.honestly, i don't understand why these horrific movies draw me in so :unsure: sometimes i think i have an over-active cluster of empathy neurons!!!!

i love "28 days later"! it also brings back some great memories of watching it with friends (one of them stumbled into the room really drunk and scared the living crap out of one of the others, before sitting on the floor with his coat on his head and eating cereal straight out of the packet (no milk) and cheering "yay, it's doctor who!" when christopher eccleston came on screen... good times). have you seen the sequel "28 weeks later"?

i finally saw the new film version of "the hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy" on telly a few nights ago. bits of the plot were different to the TV/radio/book versions and the ending was definitely different, but i still loved it - i think it kept a lot of the dark humour of the original versions.

Entirely changing the subject, have any of you lovely non-Britons seen Wallace & Gromit? Either the film or the shorts. I think it got nominated for an Oscar when it was out, just wondered what a US audience made of it.

US and UK English are not a problem to me. Aussie English however... When I watched Home & Away in the past, it was very handy to have subtitles. Even though it was also quite nice to learn some Aussie slang, especially the swear words!

(please don't judge me for watching Home & Away, we all had some guilty pleasures when we were young :ph34r: )

Cracked Pleasures wrote:US and UK English are not a problem to me. Aussie English however... When I watched Home & Away in the past, it was very handy to have subtitles. Even though it was also quite nice to learn some Aussie slang, especially the swear words!

(please don't judge me for watching Home & Away, we all had some guilty pleasures when we were young :ph34r: )

I found "takin' the piss out" to be weird, as well as "arvo" "brekkie" and "barracking" -- I understand what you mean.

A note upon his desk"P.S. Bring Me Home And Have Me!"Leather elbows on a tweed coat-Oh!-Is THAT the best you can do ?So came his reply :"But on the desk is where I want you!"

Man: "We execute people, but the government has to do it."Borat: "Why can't they do it in the gun club?"Man: "Well, there's probably no good reason..."Borat: "It would be fun!" (followed by a high-five)

And the bizarrest of all is when the Texan man says in all seriousness: "After I'm done with guns, I always go to the topless club". The idea alone of the combination of a gun club and a topless bar is so weird, but he says it so seriously as if it were the most normal thing in the world "This is what a real man should do: to shoot the gun and to look at naked women" - and it sounds like the guy really means it!